| A | B |
| cold and dry climate 2 seasons | Tundra |
| High mountain biome | Alpine Tundra |
| Large Trees: below Tundra biome | Taiga |
| usually 4 distinct seasons; lots of flowers and meadows | Grasslands |
| biome you live in | Deciduous Forest |
| usually 2 seasons of wet and dry or cold and hot less than 12 inches of rain per year | Desert |
| 2 seasons wet and dry; could get up to 400 inches of rainfall per year | Tropical Rain Forest |
| average weather over a long period of time | climate |
| immediate condition of the atmosphere | weather |
| all the water on Earth | hydrosphere |
| all the air that surrounds the Earth | atomosphere |
| all the land on the Earth | lithosphere |